Practical
Practical
Dates Spain:
Friday the 20th of October 2023 at 11.00-Sunday the 22nd of October at 12.00 2023
Dates Denmark:
-Friday the 3rd of November at 11.00-Sunday the 5th of November 2023 at 12.00
-Friday the 24th of November 2023 at 11.00-Sunday the 26th of November 2023 at 12.00
Sign-up:
Sign-up is open from 20th of November-20th of December 2022.
Payment Spain:
Spain: 325 euro by 4th of February 2023 or first installment of 150 with the rest paid by May 2023 (2 tickets reduced to 150 euro – more if people want to sponsor)
Payment Denmark:
620 euro paid 4th of February 2023 or the first installment of 150 euro with the rest paid by May 2023
Quick facts
Age limit: 18+
Number of players: 28
Contact e-mail: daemon@narrators.eu
Location Denmark:
Broholm Castle
Broholmsvej 32
5884 Gudme
Denmark
Location Spain:
Casona de la Paca
El Tolombreo, s/n
33150 Cudillero (Asturias)
Spain
Costumes
The larp is set in a “vintage steampunk” era. That means that both human and Daemon will be dressed in costumes from an ahistorical past that fits the description “vintage steampunk”.
This can entail fashion from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Feel free to mix and match any clothes, styles, and accessories from these decades for your outfit. This is all about creating the right look and feel that suits your character, rather than recreating any particular era. Think for instance dark academia, light academia, or history bounding.
As far as the steampunk part of the larp is concerned, this applies mainly to the sciences, tech, and gadgets.
You can get inspiration from the pinterest board that Anna Katrine Bønnelycke and Kathrine Dahl have kindly put together. Be advised that it in no way has to as advanced as this.
The Daemon player will additionally wear make-up and costume parts so it’s clear what animal they are representing, but no full animal-makeup or costume is relevant or wanted in this larp. Body language and representation are the most important. The representation can be done with prostheses, make-up, wigs, costume parts like fur, feathers, tails and the like. Avoid any full suits or masks.
Practicalities ingame
- It is meant quite literally that you can’t move physically far away from your counterpart in the larp, so if you need to go to the bathroom, they need to be right outside the door. If you need an offgame break, they will have to go with you. This means that you really should sign up with someone with whom you are comfortable and have calibrated expectations for the experience. There will be no exceptions during the larp.
- No serious injury or death will occur to any player characters unless the player and their partner choose to in the end of the larp
Practicalities offgame
- All communication and talking during the larp will be in English.
- The Human and Daemon player in a couple are expected to sign up together and will receive the same character sheet as their knowledge and experience is completely transparent – sharing each other’s thoughts has its perks!
- During the weekend, we will offer the possibility to our players of having their portrait pictures taken. If anyone would like to participate in this, you will have the opportunity to opt in at a fixed time in the event schedule. We would also really like to use some of these pictures for future communication about the larp (social media, website, and/or email), and we will offer you the opportunity to opt in or out of this when we start arranging practicalities for the larp.
- We fully acknowledge that it can be daunting to find a partner and maybe even get rejected in the process of asking someone. However, you are encouraged to sign up with a partner without any organizer help.
Location Denmark
The venue is a beautiful, old castle with a courtyard and five living rooms as well as a dining hall on the 2nd florr. All these locations and the 3rd floor doll museum are playable areas.
Address:
Broholm Castle
Broholmsvej 12
5884 Gudme
Denmark
Travel Denmark
If you don’t travel by car, take the train to Nyborg Station. It runs directly from Copenhagen central station and several other Danish cities and costs about 50 euro. Then take the bus no. 930 to “Rudkøbing” and get off at the stop “Broholm Gods”. It stops right in front of the castle and takes 26 minutes from Nyborg Station.
If you are flying, Copenhagen, Hamborg or Billund airports are preferable and you can reach the location by train. However, we recommend not flying to this larp if you have the opportunity not to.
Location Spain
The hotel is located in a 19th Century building surrounded by fields and meadows, an old colonial indiano house with two living room areas, a large dining room, a terrace and a centennial garden. All rooms are fully equipped and have an en suite bathroom. There’s also the option of arriving the day before and staying at the hotel for an extra charge.
Address:
Casona de la Paca
El Tolombreo, s/n
33150 Cudillero (Asturias)
Spain
https://casonadelapaca.com/web/index.php/en/home/
Travel Spain
If you don’t travel by car, the nearest airport is Oviedo (OVD) and a cab can be arranged by the hotel to pick you up from there. The cab ride is aprox 25€ total and the cabs fit 4-6 people.
The closest big cities are Avilés, Oviedo and Gijón, where there are some buses and trains that take you near the hotel. The easiest way to get there by public transportation would be going from any of those cities to Cudillero and, from there, taking either the local bus Cudillero-Gijon (Tabaza) one stop to the Pito Piñera stop and then walking 500m, or a cab, which would be only a few minutes. The whole trip from either of the big cities to the hotel should be 10-15€ at most.
Denmark:
The venue is an old castle and it is not very mobility friendly. Rooms are on the 1st and 2nd floor, and we play on different floors. This means that you need to be able to walk on stone stairs. During much of the larp you will be able to sit down on comfortable chairs or couches. If you want to enquire about accessability needs of any kind, please write an email to the team and we will tell you if we can accommodate your needs.
Spain:
All play areas will be downstairs, but the rooms are only accessible by stairs in the first and second floors. There will also be a room downstairs available for safety and resting if anyone needs it. If you want to enquire about accessability needs of any kind, please write an email to the team and we will tell you if we can accommodate your needs.
All communication will be in English both written before the larp as well as ingame and offgame.
Denmark:
The location is a gourmet hotel and you will get the following meals. Water, coffee, tea, snacks as well as some soda and beer is available at times.
Friday afternoon: Afternoon coffee with home made cake (so bring your own lunch!)
Friday evening: Three course dinner with the option of a wine menu/alcohol free drinks menu
Saturday breakfast: Buffet with local specialities
Saturday Lunch: One course meal
Saturday evening: Three course dinner with the option of a wine menu/alcohol free drinks menu
Sunday brunch: Buffet with local specialities
For all meals, your dietary requirements can probably be met. You already state it when you sign up and the hotel is used to handling special dietary needs
Spain:
It will be traditional Asturian cuisine catered from the restaurant next to the hotel and served to you. Please, let us know if you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or have any allergies/special diets in the form and we’ll inform them. Lunch and dinner on Friday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday will be included as well as snacks.
We will be serving non-alcoholic drinks. Alcohol will be available in some amounts during the game (so beer, soda, wine and bubbles) and included in the price.
For the Danish run, we still serve some drinks after the larp but you can bring your own for after the game if you want something special.
For the Spanish run, there is a small bar where you can buy drinks for the afterparty (drinks during the game are still included).
We expect you to not be drunk at any time during the larp. A little alcohol is alright, but being drunk will not be accepted. We reserve ourselves the right to remove you from the game if we deem you too intoxicated to participate in the larp in a safe manner.
Denmark:
You sleep in two person bedrooms with the person you sign up with. Most of the beds are double beds but you can ask for beds that are separated if it is important to you. We sleep offgame both nights. Some of the rooms have their own bathrooms and showers but the four suites have two shared bathrooms in the hallway as well as some common toilets in the play area.
Spain:
All rooms are double, some with one large bed and others with two singles together, fully equipped and have an en suite bathroom. There’s also the option of arriving the day before and staying at the hotel for an extra charge.
Both locations:
The rooms can be ingame during play if you want, but you can decide that in the couples and change it at your pleasure signaling it with help of ribbons that are provided to you before the game.
Until the 1st of April 2023, you can get a full refund. If one of the pair has to sign off, the whole couple will have to unless another partner that is not flagged by the other players can be found for the remaining player.
After this time, the organizers will try to fill up with new people if you have to sign off, and you will get a refund when it gets filled. You can not sell your own ticket.
Denmark:
There will be a photographer at the site all of Saturday but not Friday. That means that you can have pictures taken offgame from 10.00-11.00 on Saturday before the second act starts. Then they will take pictures at certain times during the play Saturday, but they will not be present all the time. You can request directly to them not to feature in pictures. Afterwards, you will get access to the pictures to sort out ones that you would like deleted.
Spain:
The photographer will be there the whole larp for photos.
Thank you!
A lot of people have helped to make this larp happen. All the players and helpers at the playtests in the summer of 2021 have made the larp into what it is today. It couldn’t have been done without them.
Also, thank you to
Julie Streit for help with finding the location
Mikkel Brunberg for help with workshops
Katrine Kavli for website design
Anna Katrine Bønnelycke and Kathrine Dahl for help with the pinterest board
Nico Vanderkelen, Martin Østlie Lindelien, Anne Katrine Bønnelycke, Kathrine Dahl, Julie Streit, Ida Tjell, Christian Møller Christensen, Frederikke Piil, Emil Bock Greve and Jasper Wille for sparring.
Sandy Bailly, Harry Harrold, Amalia Valero and Journeys & Tales for bringing Daemon out into the world.
BE larp for collaborating regarding insurance in Belgium:
BE Larp ASBL is the Belgian federation for larp. It gathers associations organising larps and their volunteers.
The aim of BE Larp is to stimulate the practice of Belgian larp by training, informing, promoting and supporting individuals and groups interested in, practising or organising LARP, in order to encourage the development of responsible, active, critical and supportive citizenship, mainly among young people aged 6 to 30.
Jochen aka Horatius Steam is a Steampunk prop-maker who has created essential scenography parts for Daemon. He builds functional Steampunk items which means that all gadgets function and will operate to increase immersion.